Hey Friends!

I’m preparing to replace all the interior doors in my apartment (Chicago), and I am wondering if the laundry and furnace rooms require special doors.

Ideally, I would love to slap some solid core doors on there to reduce sound, but it’s unclear to me if I need to install doors with ventilation, and if so, how much.

Does anyone know what best practices are here?

Thank you all <3

  • Jordan_the_hutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Hard to answer without knowing what you have there already. Those rooms definitely need ventilation but I don’t usually see that ventilation being part of am interior door I imagine you could put on basically any solid core that fits.

    Also Chicago has a history of unique and expensive antique door hardware so if your house is old you might want to do some googling of your knobs, lock sets, and hinges and either donate them to a place that deals in antique house parts or sell them online.

    • Thunderdonk4444@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, our place is not THAT old. I think it was built around 1993.

      Currently, both the laundry closet and the furnace closet have hollow-cored doors with a small louvered panel on the bottom half of them. Our neighbor from the downstairs apartment replaced the door to their laundry closet and put in solid doors with no (apparent) ventilation, which sparked the thought that maybe a louvered door might not be needed